Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

For those who want to believe, no proof is ever required. For those who refuse to believe, no proof is ever enough.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.